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Metro Manila registers 7,920 new COVID-19 cases in last 14 days (Eagle News) — The Philippines logged 1,660 more COVID-19 cases on July 11, Monday. According to the Department of Health, with the new cases, the total COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 3720054. Metro Manila logged the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days, with 7920. This was followed by Calabarzon with 3573, Western Visayas with 1511, Central Luzon […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Iran is planning to supply hundreds of drones with combat weapon capabilities to Russia for use in Ukraine, a top US official said Monday. Jake Sullivan, the White House national security advisor, said the information received by the United States supported views that the Russian military is facing challenges sustaining its weaponry after significant losses in Ukraine. “The Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rain showers are expected over parts of Northern Luzon. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms, in particular, are being experienced over Aurora Province. PAGASA said these were due to the low pressure area estimated 420 km east of Baler, Aurora. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms, meanwhile, are expected over the provinces […]
Tells governors, mayors that this is “part of effort to bring us back to normal” (Eagle News) – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., pushed for massive COVID-19 vaccine booster rollout so the country could return to “normal” with businesses thriving again. In his message to local government officials delivered virtually, Marcos Jr., who is still under a strict seven day isolation period after contracting COVID-19, said the massive booster rollout would ensure the country would […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Thales, Qualcomm and Ericsson unveiled Monday a plan to allow smartphones to communicate directly with satellites, a “space-based network” they hope will bring connectivity to the entire globe. The three firms envisage launching hundreds of satellites with 5G capabilities to bring coverage to “extreme geographies or remote areas across seas”. The plan would potentially cut out the base stations and antennas that current mobile networks need to send and receive […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP)– Twitter stock fell Monday after Tesla chief Elon Musk ditched a $44 billion deal to buy the social media giant. The platform stock dropped 5.46 percent on Wall Street, to $34.80 by around 7:05 am (11:05 GMT). It had lost 5.10 percent before the weekend. Musk on Friday pulled the plug on the deal, accusing the company of “misleading” statements about the number of fake accounts, according to a […]
MOSCOW (AFP) –Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday issued a decree to fast-track citizenship for all Ukrainians, more than four months into Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine. The decree ordered that “all citizens of Ukraine” be given “the right to apply for admission to the citizenship of the Russian Federation in a simplified manner”. In May, Putin already fast-tracked citizenship for residents of two regions of Ukraine — the southern region of Kherson, which is […]
Madrid, Spain (Agence France-Presse) Temperatures were set to soar above 40 degrees Celsius across large parts of Spain and Portugal on Monday as the Iberian Peninsula faces a second heat wave in less than a month. The mercury was to hit 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit) in Spain’s southeastern region of Extremadura and 41 degrees in Andalusia, Spain’s meteorological agency AEMET said. Temperatures in Spain’s normally cooler northwestern region of Galicia were predicted to rise […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — The EU’s health and medicine agencies said Monday they were recommending a second booster shot of a Covid vaccine for people over 60 years old, as infections rise again. “With cases and hospitalisations rising again as we enter the summer period, I urge everybody to get vaccinated and boosted as quickly as possible,” Stella Kyriakides, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety said. “There is no time to lose,” […]
(Eagle News) — A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Occidental on Monday, July 11. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake struck at 6:18 p.m. The epicenter was 30 kilometers northeast of Jose Abad Santos. The depth of focus was 117 kilometers. The following instrumental intensities were reported: Intensity I – General Santos City, South Cotabato; Malungon, Saranggani No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
by Amal JAYASINGHE Agence France Presse COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Millions of rupees in cash left behind by Sri Lanka’s president when he fled his official residence was handed over to a court Monday after being turned in by protestors, police said as a succession battle got under way. Protesters discovered 17.85 million rupees (about $50,000) in crisp new banknotes but turned it over to police following Saturday’s storming of the Presidential palace. […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets and oil prices fell Monday with a fresh Covid flare-up in Shanghai fanning fears of another economically painful lockdown in China’s biggest city. The news came after a forecast-busting US jobs report last week indicated the world’s top economy was coping so far with the Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, giving it room for more as it battles soaring inflation. Traders are also keeping tabs on developments […]
